Beatify
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /biˈætɪfaɪ/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Beatify is a verb meaning (transitive) To make blissful.
Meaning
(transitive) To make blissful.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
- (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.
Example Sentences
[T]hat assertion of the wise man: 'Labor not for riches; wilt thou set thy heart on that which is not?' it, well applied, will pluck down the high places reared to this great idol of clay in men's hearts: will confute the common conceits and phrases which so beatify wealth; […]
Word Forms
- beatifies
- beatifying
- beatified
Synonyms for beatify
Depending on context, synonyms include blissen, elate, enrapture, begladden, bright, cheer.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include canonize, saint, beatificate, enbliss, bonify, heaven.
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